It's that time of year when that large Video game trade show happens in LA. where hoards of fans look for as much juicy details of the next big titles. After absorbing a weeks worth of content, Michael, Brian and Edrick sit down for a chat. What was the best, what wasn't the best, and what did we take away from the whole thing.

The podcast really took a turn this week. I can't stress enough how much NOT SAFE FOR WORK it is this time... We talk about a lot of things Sex related. whether it's sexual acts, orientations, and viewing habits. It's just chalk full of it this week.

This isn't the podcast that you think it is this week. Instead we get another visit from old man Michael, Edrick rants about something worth caring about and Melissa knows more about sea animals then the rest of us.

What do you do when you're a writer and you want to write about a different culture that you were not born into? Do you learn about it as much as you can, or do you go with your gut? Maybe an option is to mock others that don't think the way you're going about it? Maybe you should create a prize to encourage that?

Or you can listen to Michael talk about the CVR expo. Virtual Reality is an escape.

Michael tries his best to stay awake and host a podcast that gets down to the heart of the matter, which is everyone's feelings on Dad's cookies. Or is it Chicken rental? Really we discuss growing cynicism, and how you're all sheeple.

In this episode were we are talking shit both figuratively and literally. Garin Fahlman joins Michael to talk about articles that were probably written with the intention to rile up, and the fan/games press that take the bait. Because we have fun personalities and that should be more important than the news we deliver.

Though the NewsFriends podcast is officially 2 years old. We took it easy this week and invited Kayla Isomura back onto the podcast who recently went on a trip to kiwi town. That's a funny thing to say about New Zealand I'm sure!

It's the podcast before the easter weekend, so we have a little bit of candy and then mock the week. which mostly consists of United's terrible PR. But hey, we also talk about Jian Ghomeshi, Lunch shaming, death and poop clothes.

It's that kind of week.

Bonus content:It was mentioned on the podcast, but here's video of that time Michael was at a poetry night, sharing a story.

The Abbotsford News' "flowering" reporter Kelvin Gawley, joins the news friends to talk about Pepsi, youtube, NFC hand-swipes, and a California adventure (among other things). So buckle up, turn on those earholes and get ready for a chill ride.

These days, Infowars is probably a lot less of a conspiracy Theory website, a lot more "A state of mind". If you perpetuate a lie for long enough, people are going to continue to believe it even after you admit it was all a ruse. I suppose it also doesn't help the American public when the leader of their country also perpetrates the nonsense.

I guess a lot of people regardless of shape, size and colour, are capable of saying a lot of stupid stuff on the internet. But it either seems like straight white men say the dumbest things, or their quite possibly the easiest targets. Regardless of that answer, We look at three situations where a dude probably shouldn't have done the things that they did, and at least one of them REALLY shouldn't have done the thing.

It seems to be, that no matter how much work we put into the journalism, the ongoing ignorance of critics and the executives mishandling of the money is never going to stop. Even when news is now more important than ever, there's an ever looming apathy towards the humans who deliver it.

That's why we are a podcast of ideas. They may not be great ones, but they're ideas, and you can't fault us for that.

Now that it's "Season 4" I think it's about time that we hit a milestone and get a full time reporter onto the podcast. Nick Eagland joins Jake and Michael for some Nintendo Switch conversation, and small bit of news about borders, North Korea, and robots with skin. Then we cut to the chase and talk up the province, The work he does, How the paper is changing and then we talk film school roots.

It was another busy week for Michael, so he did what anyone would do in this situation: Call up Godfrey and ask him to be entertaining. They discuss a multitude of subjects. From Rebel Media, to Subway's Chicken... and even Pigeon sex!

Melissa and Jake join Michael, as they carefully compare and contrast between two short angry men. One held a rally for free speech and tried to defend a Nazi salute never happened, the other went onto Bill Maher's show and had a little bit of his professional career destroyed. But hey, we also talk about this really cool app that uses augmented reality to tell indigenous stories.

Well Valentine's Day is already over, but it's not going to stop us from talking about relationship related stories, whether it's about cheating, surviving monogamous relationships or just eating chocolate to keep the relationship afloat. Your panel of relationship experts is here for you, and even open up our hearts a little and get real

It's been a long week for some, so in order to put this week to a close Michael asked Danielle Carr, Producer and host of Inside media, to bring a friend and put a show together. Melissa was also available, so she stopped by and this has become the first 4 person NewsFriends podcast (though, I'm sure that's not exactly true.) So we discuss things about Inside Media, and BCIT, tarot cards, and trolling/being trolled on the internet.

It's been more than a week and it seems like the new year is off to a terrible start. King baby is now running the country and banning others from entering the country, and terrible news of a shooting outside of a Mosque in Quebec. How about about, before we even get into all of that let's take a trip to the moon and drink our sorrows away. You know, in the name of science!

We're in the real Goop now. Tony comes out of hiding to join Michael on a fantastic podcast where we try to do our best to talk about why you shouldn't put a jade egg in certain places, the dangers of technology, mistaking Fahrenheit 451 for 1984. And then Michael gets all ranty about Bell's BellLetsTalk campaign.